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Trends in Restorative Dentistry
February 20, 2019
Welcome to another edition of the Compendium eBook series, in which we focus on restorative dentistry. As the development of dental materials advances at a brisk pace, it is critical that clinicians stay abreast of the latest technological innovations and understand the nuances of various materials that can affect outcomes. In this eBook, we address two topics in particular that offer insights into key areas of this dental specialty.
Today's Trends in Specialty Care Dentistry
March 26, 2019
Our two continuing education articles in this edition of the Compendium eBook series focus on pregnant patient care. The first CE emphasizes the importance of clinicians recognizing the physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy and their relevance to dental care delivery. The second a...
Today's Trends in Implantology
March 20, 2019
This special eBook from Compendium presents two continuing education (CE) articles on procedures in implantology. The first CE provides a systematic treatment planning protocol for an implant-supported fixed prosthesis for patients with an edentulous maxilla. The second CE offers 10 keys fo...
Medical Management of Dental Caries
March 14, 2019
This Compendium eBook features a CE article on some of the most up-to-date information regarding emerging technologies in dental caries detection and risk assessment. It discusses different levels of invasiveness involved in treating caries. Silver diamine fluoride is given a special focus.
Prevention of Dental Caries by Silver Diamine Fluoride
March 11, 2019
This Compendium eBook features a CE article that describes how the use of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) has proven efficacy in preventing the incidence of new caries lesions. Also included in this article is an analysis of nine clinical trials in children showing that SDF prevented 61% of n...
Today's Trends in Endodontics
February 6, 2019
The relationship between endodontics and restoration is explored in two continuing education (CE) articles presented in this special Compendium eBook. The first article explains the importance of obtaining a pulpal and periradicular diagnosis before restorative treatment. The second discuss...
Today's Trends in Periodontics
January 28, 2019
This special Compendium eBook brings you two continuing education (CE) articles on topics in periodontics. The first article explores the use of tuberosity connective tissue for root coverage and ridge augmentation. The second article describes extraction site preservation using a graft mat...
A Systematic Approach to Xerostomia Diagnosis and Management
January 18, 2019
This Compendium eBook features a CE article that presents a comprehensive, practical, and evidence-based approach to the current management of xerostomia for the practicing oral healthcare professional.
Today's Trends in Oral Surgery
January 14, 2019
This special Compendium eBook provides two continuing education (CE) articles on oral surgery topics, particularly as they relate to implant-oriented concerns. The first article covers utilization of dense polytetrafluoroethylene (d-PTFE) barriers for post-extraction bone regeneration in pr...
Current Topics in Dentistry: Sleep Medicine
December 21, 2018
This special Compendium eBook provides two articles featuring topics in dental sleep medicine. The first is a continuing education (CE) article on how cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) can be used to detect possible sleep disorders, with specific case examples. The second article is a cl...
Advances in Prosthodontics
December 7, 2018
Prosthetic considerations are in the forefront in this special Compendium eBook. The eBook provides two continuing education (CE) articles and a case report involving advances in fixed and removable prosthodontics and related considerations.
Current Topics in Dentistry: Digital Imaging
November 28, 2018
The world has embraced digital technology, and dentistry is no exception. This special Compendium eBook contains two continuing education (CE) articles that focus on digital imaging with cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and related technology.
Advances in Orthodontics
November 21, 2018
Dentistry increasingly consists of many specialties that are brought together in the interest of optimal patient care. This special Compendium eBook contains two continuing education (CE) articles focusing on the role of orthodontics in cases that involve an interdisciplinary team.
Advances in Infection Control
November 16, 2018
This special Compendium eBook provides a continuing education (CE) article designed to help dental professionals understand the danger of waterborne pathogens and the importance of testing, disinfecting, and maintaining dental water lines to avoid contamination from microbe-containing biofi...
Advances in Periodontics
October 31, 2018
Advances in periodontal tissue regeneration and periodontal health assessment are topics featured in this special Compendium eBook, with two continuing education (CE) articles. The eBook also includes a case report on an edentulous patient.
Reimagining Dental Bonding: Predictable Restorations for Patients
October 25, 2018
This Compendium eBook features a CE article on the current generation of resin adhesives and the wide variety of restorations that can be placed with them. It also reviews adhesive systems and describes their various classifications, from earlier generations to the etch-and-rinse, self-etch...
Advances in Pediatric Dentistry
October 18, 2018
This special Compendium eBook focuses on advances in dentistry that involve unique considerations for younger patients. The first article is a continuing education course on orthodontic-associated localized gingival recession of the lower incisors. The second article describes case reports ...
Advances in Implantology
October 10, 2018
As the number of older Americans grows, edentulism is likely to be an increasing problem here. To aid dental professionals in keeping up-to-date on implantology, this special Compendium eBook offers two continuing education (CE) articles and a case report on a concept for addressing the nee...
Current Topics in Endodontics
September 24, 2018
This special Compendium eBook presents two articles on topics in endodontics. The first article, a continuing education course with a quiz for 2 credits, examines various steps of endodontic treatment and how, from a restorative standpoint, treatment can be improved for better long-term predictabili...
Advances in Dental Pain Management
September 12, 2018
This Compendium eBook includes two continuing education articles that examine drugs used in pain management. The first article discusses reasons for drug abuse among the elderly, warning signs associated with substance abuse, and the implications of this problem to the oral cavity and the d...
Advances in Restorative Dentistry
August 22, 2018
This Compendium eBook on advances in restorative dentistry takes both scientific assessment and general observation into consideration with the presentation of two continuing education articles on caries topics and a peer perspective on the importance of showing patients their own smile.
Current Topics in Oral Surgery
August 9, 2018
This special Compendium eBook presents two different oral surgery topics as two separate continuing education articles. The first article explains the biological and clinical advantages of using platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) with or without a bone grafting material for sinus augmentation proce...
Current Topics in Pediatric Dentistry
July 24, 2018
In this issue of Compendium's Clinical eBook Series, we present two articles that are intended to help clinicians improve their pediatric care. The continuing education (CE) article compares the use of traditional methods in pediatric dentistry with digital methods and explores how a digita...
Advances in Dentistry: Sleep Medicine
June 28, 2018
Undiagnosed sleep apnea significantly impacts one's health and productivity, so oral healthcare practitioners are increasingly expanding their practices to help their patients with breathing-disturbed sleep. In this special eBook from Compendium, two perspectives on dental sleep medicine are present...
Advances in Dentistry: Digital Imaging
June 20, 2018
In this special eBook from Compendium, we offer two continuing education articles designed to keep the dental professional updated on how digital dental technology is replacing traditional workflows and becoming the new standard in dentistry. The first CE article describes the benefits of acquiring ...
Current Topics in Prosthodontics
June 12, 2018
In our constantly evolving world, digital changes have had an impact on dentistry as conventional dentures have made way for implants and fixed prostheses created through digital design. The first CE article in this eBook reviews basic principles of nonpressure mucostatic and selective-pressure func...
Current Topics in Infection Control
May 25, 2018
This eBook provides two continuing education articles on infection control. The first CE article identifies common hazards dental workers face on a daily basis, including infectious agents such as bloodborne pathogens, patient blood, and other body fluids. The author then presents strategies for pr...
Current Topics in Orthodontics
May 14, 2018
This eBook provides two continuing education articles on orthodontics. The first CE article demonstrates the use of forced eruption and a novel subperiosteal minimally invasive (a)esthetic ridge-augmentation technique, known by the acronym SMART, for the treatment of a complex iatrogenic gingival-al...
Current Topics in Periodontics
April 25, 2018
This eBook provides two continuing education articles on periodontics, specifically on the topic of root coverage. In the first CE article, the author reviews and differentiates the therapies used to treat gingival recession and areas of deficient attached gingiva. In the second CE article, the auth...
Current Topics in Dental Pain Management
April 10, 2018
The two continuing education articles in this eBook focus on different aspects of pain management. The first article provides an in-depth review of different injection techniques and patient management methodologies designed to decrease the fear of dental needles. In the second CE article, the use o...
Current Topics in Implantology
March 29, 2018
This special Compendium eBook is aimed at helping clinicians expand their implant dentistry knowledge and improve their skills.The first CE article discusses risk indicators and prevention of implant soft-tissue complications. The second CE article explains the risks and benefits of periodontal prob...
Current Topics in Restorative Dentistry
February 26, 2018
This Compendium eBook provides two continuing education articles on restorative dentistry, each focusing on topics related specifically to enamel. In the first CE, the author offers a systematic approach for early intervention for asymptomatic vertical enamel and dentin cracks based on current evide...
Salvaging the Fixed Full-Arch Screw-Retained Prosthesis Using Novel Fixed Attachment System After Late Implant Failure
February 21, 2018
This Compendium eBook features a CE article that will increase practitioners' knowledge of the value, service, and benefits of salvaging implant-supported prostheses.
Advances in Endodontics
February 14, 2018
This eBook provides two continuing education articles on endodontics topics. The first article reviews solutions to the problem of endodontic rotary file breakage. In the second article, the authors examine mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA), a material that has become vital in endodontic dentistry.
Updates in Oral Surgery
January 22, 2018
This special Compendium eBook offers two continuing education articles designed to keep the dental professional updated on techniques for oral surgery practices. The first article provides an update on new developments in diode laser soft-tissue surgery based on current understanding of laser-tissue...
Updates in Implantology
December 13, 2017
The special Compendium eBook explores factors for implant success. According to the authors of our first CE article, there are many factors that affect primary implant stability. The authors focus on the impact of insertion torque on achieving predictable osseointegration. Our second CE article desc...
Updates in Endodontics
December 6, 2017
This special Compendium eBook provides two CE articles to increase practitioners' knowledge of endodontics topics. The first article describes the vital role that irrigation plays in successful endodontic treatment. The second article addresses the complexity of the pulp root canal and the difficult...
Updates in Infection Control
November 20, 2017
This special Compendium eBook provides a continuing education article that explains the value of dental office employees wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). Additionally, the eBook provides two other articles on infection control topics, one on the importance of having a designated infectio...
Pediatric Dentistry
October 30, 2017
Restorative procedures in pediatric dentistry involve special considerations for the growing dentition. Both the patient's current situation and future needs must be kept in mind. In this Compendium eBook, two continuing education articles are provided, each presenting different concerns regarding d...
Clinical eBook Series: Restorative
October 11, 2017
This special Compendium eBook provides two CE articles on very different topics, offering more than just practical knowledge on restorative procedures. In addition to describing details concerning a palatal erosion, it gives an in-depth look at a well-known restorative material. This eBook concludes...
Prosthodontics 2
September 27, 2017
This special Compendium eBook on prosthodontics provides information on specific topics as well as general principles regarding the human side of dentistry that should not be forgotten. The first article discusses use of a dual-axis implant designed to help clinicians overcome anatomical constraints...
Pain Management 2
September 11, 2017
This special Compendium eBook emphasizes how a dentist is responsible for relieving patients of pain in a conscientious, safe fashion. The first article encourages dentists to educate themselves on the ongoing opioid crisis in America in order to better serve their patients while helping control th...
Periodontal Maintenance
July 24, 2017
This special Compendium eBook focuses on combating peri-implant disease maintaining good tissue health and enhancing esthetics. The first article describes ways in which peri-implantitis is diagnosed and how to evaluate levels of risk as a means of preventing onset of this disease. A second article...
Oral Surgery
June 26, 2017
This Compendium eBook highlights two articles on oral surgery. The first article describes periodontal surgical approaches in interdisciplinary treatment of patients with a gummy smile and short tooth syndrome. The second article discusses the progression in dental techniques over time for sinus f...
Pediatrics
June 6, 2017
This Compendium eBook features two articles on pediatric dentistry topics that go far beyond esthetics. The first article highlights treatment of a developing child with fusion of a maxillary central and lateral incisor with a congenitally missing lateral. The second article focuses on drug-associ...
Periodontics
May 22, 2017
This special Compendium eBook describes a successful CO2 laser vestibular extension procedure performed in a patient with a chromosomal abnormality. It also presents a thorough classification for extraction sockets of single-rooted teeth, while providing guidance to clinicians i...
Pain Management
April 26, 2017
This special Compendium eBook discusses how dentists need to be cognizant of the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs when prescribing opioids for pain control. Also, six different reversal agents are described that dentists can use for adverse drug reactions. Download today and earn 4 FREE CEU!
Endodontics
April 17, 2017
This special Compendium eBook discusses how local anesthesia can be used to provide pain-free endodontic therapy. Also, a successful pulp capping procedure is described along with stepwise excavation associated with restorative treatment for deep caries lesions. Download today and earn 4 FREE CEU!
Orthodontics
April 3, 2017
This issue of Compendium's Clinical eBook Series features two continuing education articles aimed at improving orthodontics, including reducing the time needed to complete treatment as well as the use of lasers to enhance esthetic outcomes of orthodontic treatment. Download to earn 4 FREE CEU now!
Infection Control
February 27, 2017
Clinicians must be diligent when treating patients, and similarly, need to be vigilant about the condition of their offices and operatories in regard to inhibiting infection control. This eBook is aimed at assisting clinicians in their endeavors to combat contamination. Download to earn 4 FREE CEU!
Prosthodontics
February 15, 2017
As more dentists learn the practice of implant restorations, it is helpful to know what problems to look for and how to overcome them if they do occur. This eBook focuses on complications commonly seen with fixed implant restorations and patient adaptation to new dentures. Earn 4 FREE CEU now!
Updates in Restorative Dentistry
February 6, 2017
As material advances continue to broaden restorative options, proper retention is more critical than ever to success. This eBook focuses on techniques to improve adhesion and resin bonding and preserve the maximum amount of natural tooth structure. Download today and earn 4 FREE CEU!
Decision Making in Implantology
January 25, 2017
Earn 4 FREE CEU! Practitioners have many factors to consider to ensure successful results. This eBook features two CE articles by some of Compendium’s top contributing authors and highlights two critical topics that will impact virtually any dental implant practitioner.
Restorative
November 28, 2016
Earn 4 FREE CEU! This eBook features three articles focusing on restorative dentistry with an emphasis on caries management. The first CE article reviews remineralizing therapeutics; the second CE concentrates on risk factor identification; and a "peer perspective" discusses the importance of early ...
Implantology
November 7, 2016
Earn 4 FREE CEU! This eBook features three articles focusing on implant solutions. The role of narrow-diameter implants as an option for provisional and definitive fixed restorations is discussed in two offerings, while the third article reviews risk factors and treatments for peri-implantitis.
Clinical eBook Series: Endodontics
April 21, 2016
With more than 24 million endodontic procedures being performed in the United States annually, endodontists are discovering new methods and technologies to treat their patients effectively, quickly, and comfortably. This eBook examines topics aimed at helping endodontists master their craft.